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pony express

NOUN
former mail delivery system
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Stagecoach services, like the pony express, took days to traverse the gutted tracks across the wilderness that still separated America’s nascent cities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2025

Why would anyone deliver a thumb drive by pony express or carrier pigeon when the internet was made for the purpose of quickly and easily delivering data electronically?

From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2018

Filippini and other ranchers have sued, staged a "pony express" protest ride on horseback to Washington, D.C., and petitioned for Furtado's ouster.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2016

Then, two laps from the finish, the pony express got steamed up.

From Time Magazine Archive

The pony express provided faster service in 1860-61.

From The New Nation by William E. Dodd


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